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Evolving agendas in European English-medium higher education : interculturality, multilingualism and language policy / Clive W. Earls.

9781137543127 (electronic book)
1137543124 (electronic book)
9781137543110

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

©2016

English

1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages)

PE1068.E92

428.0071/14

"English medium-of-instruction (EMI) is transforming modern-day universities across the globe, creating increasingly complex linguistic and intercultural realities which lecturers, students and decision-makers must negotiate. Teaching subject matter at higher-education level through the medium of English, in countries where English is neither an official nor national language (e.g. the Netherlands, Germany), is a highly complex phenomenon fraught with challenges and benefits. EMI programmes are capable of transforming domestic degree programmes into platforms of intercultural teaching and learning by infusing them with greater numbers of international faculty and students. Equally however, EMI programmes pose a socio-linguistic, -cultural and -economic challenge by institutionalising English at higher-education level within a country and displacing somewhat national and minority languages. This book, the first of its kind, provides an up-to-date and empirically-informed exploration of these salient themes in Europe, based on significant empirical data gathered and analysed on the German EMI context"-- Provided by publisher.

Revision of "An exploration of language-in-education policy and practice: the experience of English-medium degree programmes in Germany", 2013.

University of Limerick, Ph. D. 2013

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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